The benefits are that you don't have to actively be involved managing the property, it provides both monthly cash returns (based on the rents it gets) as well as equity growth and appreciation, and it is much easier to do an even-money exchange into a TIC.

Secondly, to have an IRA fund a portion and you fund a portion requires a lot of things as an IRA owner may not personally benefit from the IRA investments (prohibited transaction), as such, certain requirements must be followed to do such a thing.Also, there was mention of buying, fixing, then re-selling.

The price was then adjusted to 350K and sat there for 2 months before our offer of 335K.

So, I'm not sure that there is any benefit to plugging numbers into a calculator when you could simply use the formula above.

Ask them to give you a list of homeowners that currently have ARM mortgages, as change often proceeds the adjustment (selling, foreclosure, etc.).

And you get the benefit of having 40 past ones to catch up on.Two Great reads, I bought both J.

And you get the benefit of having 40 past ones to catch up on.

They could lose their MLS privileges, and they won't see much benefit coming their way from it.

Hi Kevin,When I'm appraising I won't make an adjustment for 'age'.

Also, I'm wondering if people have thoughts about the benefit of owning the units as a block from a wholesaling perspective, or from a buy and hold position, etc.